Family Medicine

Content Outline and Assessment Objectives

The Family Medicine examination is designed for end-of-course or end-of-clinical rotation/clerkship assessment for students enrolled at a college of osteopathic medicine (COM). Individual COMs may also administer the examination at other times in accord with their curriculum goals and mission. This examination emphasizes core knowledge and elements of osteopathic principles and practice in the discipline of Family Medicine that are essential for the pre-doctoral osteopathic medical student.

Selected Student and Faculty Learning Resources for Family Medicine

In addition to the aforementioned objectives, examples of supplementary resources used by the NBOME to inform the development of the Family Medicine exam are listed below:

Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) – National Clerkship Curriculum

American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM) – Educational Council on Osteopathic Principles (ECOP)

American Osteopathic Association (AOA) – Family Medicine

American Osteopathic Association (AOA) and American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians (ACOFP) – Basic Standards for Residency Training in Osteopathic Family Medicine and Manipulative Treatment

Practice Examination

The Family Medicine Practice Exam is primarily designed to assist the candidate in navigating through the examination, and it is provided to facilitate the actual testing experience. It is not designed to give the candidate a score or provide information about how a candidate might actually perform on the examination. When an answer choice is selected, it will not be recorded for scoring and the selection will not be saved once another item is viewed. If you wish to track your answer choices, you must record them on your own. A special function is provided that allows you to view the correct answer for each item by clicking on the “Show Answer” button located below the answer choices. The “Show Answer” button will not appear on the actual examination.

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